A local resident carries a dog out of a destroyed residential building following an aerial bomb in the centre of Kharkiv, on June 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP Photo)





A short distance away in Martin’s Haven, Bay in the United Kingdom, an Atlantic grey seal has taken up residency on July 1, 2024 and has been given the name Maximus. (Photo by Brian Matthews/Animal News Agency)





A person and a dog wait outside St James' Church polling station during the general election in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, on July 4, 2024. (Photo by Lesley Martin/Reuters)





Edgar Sanchez stops on a walk with his dogs who cool off in a pool beside a fire hydrant sprayer, Saturday, June 22, 2024, in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York. (Photo by John Minchillo/AP Photo)





A sedated rhinoceros lies unconscious as professor James Larkin (R) from the University of the Witwatersrand's Radiation and Health Physics Unit (RHPU) uses a can of identification spray (DataDot) after carefully implanting dosed and calculated radioisotopes into it’s horns along with other Rhisotope Project members at an undisclosed location in the Waterbury UNESCO biosphere in Mokopane on June 25, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel Croset/AFP Photo)





A goose flies by as Denmark's King Frederik X presents the King's Watch during the Anniversary Parade at the Royal Life Guards at the Life Guard Barracks in Copenhagen, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Photo by Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP Photo)





A municipal worker shows owlets rescued from a fallen tree after a powerful storm in Montenegro's capital Podgorica, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. A powerful storm has swept through countries in the western Balkans after several days of sizzling temperatures, killing two people and damaging houses, pulling out trees and flooding streets, officials said on Tuesday. (Photo by Risto Bozovic/AP Photo)





British opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer greets supporters during a Labour general election campaign event, in Milton Keynes, Britain on July 1, 2024. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)





A newly fledged peregrine falcon chick spreads its wings as it perches on top of a camera at the University of Montreal, Canada on June 25, 2024. Only six weeks old, the chick has been named Hugo. (Photo by Canadian Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A deer is seen after Cedric Petit, founder of the “Asbl Sauvons Bambi” association, rescued it with his drone in the tall grass of the Mehaigne meadows on June 24, 2024. In parts of the Belgian countryside teeming with roe deer, an animal lover has set himself a mission: to dig out of the tall grass the young fawns left there by their mother so that they can escape the grim reaper. (Photo by John Thys/AFP Photo)





A sick or injured Raccoon is seen on the night of June 18th, 2024 lingering in the controversial Pro-Palestine Protest Encampment on the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Campus. Here he lays on the pavement in front of a sign that says, “The World Stands With Palestine”. (Photo by Amy Katz/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Owner Ann Lewis holds up her dog Wild Thang after winning first prize in the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, on June 21, 2024. Wild Thang, a Pekingese dog who had already entered the competition four times, finally won the 34th annual World's Ugliest Dog competition and was awarded $5,000. (Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP Photo)





A male Asian golden cat reacts from inside a cage after he was seized from an illegal animal hunter by Indonesian nature conservation agency (BKSDA), in Banda Aceh on June 29, 2024. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)





Otto, the Springer Spaniel playing in River Rea to cool off during the heatwave in Birmingham, UK on June 25, 2024. (Photo by Anita Maric/South West News Service)





A horse trainer takes his horse into the water at Pebble Beach on June 28, 2024 in Bridgetown, Barbados. The swimming horses of Barbados offer a unique and remarkable experience at Pebbles Beach, where racehorses from the nearby Garrison Savannah enjoy their morning swim almost daily between 5:30 am and 7 am. During this ritual, horses swim out surprisingly far to the moored boats before returning to shore, with some staying longer in the water if recovering from injury or soreness after a race. Visitors can observe the horses' individual personalities as they swim and interact with the water, but are advised to respect the guidance of the grooms and maintain a safe distance, as horses can behave unpredictably, especially if frightened. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)





A newborn giant panda cub born to giant panda Mengmeng is seen at the Guangzhou Chimelong Safari Park on July 2, 2024 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. Giant panda Mengmeng is the eldest one of the world's only panda triplets. (Photo by Li Zhanjun/Southern Metropolis Daily/VCG via Getty Images)





Young kestrels ready to fly for the first time after nesting on the side of a house in Rochdale, Greater Manchester in the last decade of June 2024. (Photo by Gemma DeCet/Animal News Agency)





Parkinson's disease patient Giuliana Geatti attends a hippotherapy session with her physiotherapist Sabrina Valente at San Giovanni Battista Hospital in Rome, Italy on February 9, 2024. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)





Golden retrievers Bond and Bree wait to eat their wedding cake placed atop a traditional marriage “double happiness” paper cutout, as they get married in Shanghai, China on June 29, 2024. (Photo by Nicoco Chan/Reuters)





Horses run past the Hermitage of El Rocio during the annual “Saca de las Yeguas” (round-up of the wild mares) in Almonte on June 26, 2024. Each year in late June, large herds of free-roaming horses are rounded up from the marshes and forests at the Donana National Park to be driven past the Hermitage of El Rocio, where they are blessed before heading on to run through the crowded streets of Almonte. (Photo by Cristina Quicler/AFP Photo)